Excesses of biopower: A bio and necropolitical analysis of microplastic circulation

 

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Sonraí Bibleagrafaíochta
Údar: Girot, Eva
Formáid: artículo original
Stádas:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2025
Cur Síos:This paper revisits Foucault's formulation of the excess of biopower (1976), employed to discuss atomic power, in order to contemplate the news of microplastic circulation in the biosphere. We will examine from a bio and necropolitical perspective the implications of microplastic circulation. Firstly, plastic will be addressed as a paradigmatic material of 20th-century late capitalism, exploring how its decomposition turns into microplastics. We will then show how the extensive and intensive circulation of this material destabilizes the Foucauldian notions of security, milieu, and regulatory power. Finally, the toxicity of this material will be exposed, along with its connection to the phenomenon of endocrine disruption as a form of necropolitics.  
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institiúid:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Teanga:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/1616
Rochtain Ar Líne:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rfilosofia/article/view/1616
Palabra clave:endocrine disruption
circulation
plastic
biopolitics
microplastics
microplástico
biopolítica
circulación
disrupción endocrina
plástico